Going to be a interesting couple of days. Had a good rain along with golf ball size hail. County to the north has a tornado warning along with a winter storm warning for tonight and tomorrow. Hate to say it but we where without storms last spring and summer I really enjoyed the hail tonight.
Spring time weather
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3 M L & C
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This has been some interesting weather for sure. I saw the tornado warnings your talking about on the tv just a bit ago. Just when I think spring is here. Here comes low temps forcasted in the lower teens with 2 to 4 inches of snow forcasted. I know that's not odd to some of you, but my dad always wants to plant corn come April 15. Those little seeds will need coveralls if someone around gets rammy to start that early this year. For our area this is one of the coldest march-early April's I can remember. This time last year the ground temp was already close to 60 F.
We have had more moisture this spring late winter than we had last year. Hopefully this pans out for some relief this summer grass is no where ready for cattle. We started to plant corn around April 20 last year. Earlier than we have ever planted but I was taking a trip to china in may, so we needed to get it in sooner.
There is a lot of guys around here not going to corn this year. What about in Kansas. We took all our corn ground out and went to wheat and we planted a lot of oats and some oat and peas. Last year was pretty ruff raising corn.
There is a lot of guys around here not going to corn this year. What about in Kansas. We took all our corn ground out and went to wheat and we planted a lot of oats and some oat and peas. Last year was pretty ruff raising corn.
rancher rick
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I know some of you are thinking climate change is "Junk science" but it seems to me there are some definite strange changes in weather happening over the past few years around here. So far, Spring has been pretty typical tho`......... some moisture(snow) & it`s gonna take awhile for the soil to warm up so we can get grass growing again.
Faster horses
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rancher rick said:
There is nothing new under the sun.
This type of weather has no doubt happened long before any talk of
climate change. As for climate change, follow the money...
3 M L & C
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3/4 of our ground is irrigated, with good water, But we are in the ground water district that is cutting back to 11 inches of water per year. Which is great for younger farmers like me. They are going on a five year average, so on our farm we are doing a lot of rotation. About half of my acres are going to be milo and only going to get about 6 inches of water. Probably going to get one of those five years to wheat with hardly any water applied. So I am still going to water the corn fully in the other years. It was to dry for me to get any wheat up last fall even on the ground I summer fallowed, we also have had quite a bit of moisture compaired to last years total. We have maybe 2 and a half foot of moisture built up. Not an abundance, but way better than we have been. Have good moisture to get every crop we want to plant up this spring, but definently not in the bin, yet. 